bram vandendriessche

Engineering Manager & Software/Data/AI Engineer — building platforms, pipelines, and AI-native apps.

about

I'm Bram — an engineering manager and software/data/AI engineer with a background in computer science. I build production-grade data platforms, AI-powered applications, and software products. I've led teams, coached engineers, and worked across industries from finance and telecom to medical research and logistics.

expertise

experience

Engineering Manager — Panenco (prev. Inect)

2025/10 – present

Engineering management and tech leadership across AI-native applications, data platforms, and software engineering. Inect was acquired by Panenco in December 2025.

TypeScript, Python, AWS, GCP, Azure, GenAI

Team Lead & Data/Cloud Engineer — Dataroots

2020/11 – 2025/10

Led a team of ~10 consultants while designing and delivering data platforms and AI applications. Built pipelines on Hadoop, Snowflake, and Databricks with dbt. Implemented GenAI chatbot agents with LangGraph. Coach and mentor for personal development. Taught data platform principles, dbt & software engineering at the (bi-)yearly RootsAcademy. Guild Grandmaster Data & Cloud — built a culture of R&D and knowledge sharing, organized RootsConf.

Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, Python, LangChain, Terraform

ICT Coördinator ad interim — vzw Comité voor Onderwijs

2020 (fall)

Assisted the school with its transformation to Google Classrooms. Supported teachers with day-to-day questions about the digital aspects of a classroom.

Machine Learning Engineer — ToThePoint

2019/09 – 2020/11

AI projects including data analysis, reinforcement learning, computer vision, and constraint programming. Built PoCs and production solutions.

Python, OpenCV, AWS Sagemaker, Docker

Student Employee, IT — University Hospitals Leuven

2016 – 2018

System administration and support within the IT department of one of Belgium's largest university hospitals.

projects

AI-powered animal health monitoring platform

2025/10 – present

Full-stack system with computer vision for real-time livestock surveillance and foaling detection, an ML pipeline with MLflow for model training and labelling, video processing, a web dashboard and React Native mobile app, and Terraform-managed cloud infrastructure.

Python, TypeScript, React Native, MLflow, Terraform, Docker

Preventive healthcare platform

2026/01 – present

Full-stack application with a Python backend and TypeScript frontend, deployed on Terraform-managed cloud infrastructure.

Python, TypeScript, Terraform, HCL

GenAI: Customer Chatbot

2025/01 – 2025/10

Developed backend infrastructure for a Belgian telco's customer FAQ chatbot. Software engineering, API design, integration with vector databases and provisioning of required infrastructure.

AWS, Python, Terraform, FastAPI, PgVector, LangChain

Data platform on Databricks

2023/03 – 2024/12

Design and develop data pipelines to extract and load data to Azure Databricks and transform it using dbt for a company in the medical research industry. Coach/train the team on dbt, Databricks and CI/CD best practices.

Azure, ADF, Databricks, Python, dbt, SQL, DevOps

Data platform on Snowflake

2022/08 – 2023/02

Migrate a SME in the logistics sector from SQL Server to a modern data platform on Snowflake. Main focus on analytics engineering, migrating existing SQL scripts to transformation logic in dbt.

Snowflake, Snowpark, dbt, SQL

Data pipelines on Hadoop

2021/09 – 2022/07

Set up data pipelines to ingest data from various sources to the Hadoop data lake for an international key player in the financial sector.

Spark, Hadoop, Bash, Mainframe, Azure DevOps, SQL

DevOps / Data Engineer

2021/02 – 2021/06

Build pipeline that retrieves and preprocesses data, offer it to a predictive model and make the resulting predictions available for business consumers.

Azure ML, Azure DevOps, Azure Data Factory

Record Linkage on AWS Sagemaker

2020/11 – 2021/01

Record linkage of multiple customer databases based on addresses and geolocations. Delivery was a small Python app that stored the matched customer info on S3.

Python, Jupyter, AWS Sagemaker, Docker

Machine Learning PoCs

2019 – 2020

Various PoCs and demos as Machine Learning Engineer about constraint optimization and computer vision, e.g. shopping cart detection and resource planning optimization.

OpenCV, Spring Boot, Google OR, OptaPlanner

skills

Languages: Python, Java, SQL, HCL, Shell

Data: Databricks, dbt, Snowflake, Spark, ADF

AI & ML: LangChain / LangGraph, Computer Vision, FastAPI

Cloud & Infra: AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD

Leadership: Team Management, Coaching, Account Management

education

Master of Engineering: Computer Science

KU Leuven, 2017 – 2019

Bachelor of Computer Science

KU Leuven, 2014 – 2017

contact

Interested in working together? Get in touch.

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